J. Electronic Field Trip to A Garden

Welcome to My Garden !

Get a Voki now!	In this field trip to a suburban backyard garden, you will learn the following: the fun of growing your own flowers, herbs, and vegetables An earth friendly way to create your own fertilizer and mulch the value of collecting rainwater the beauty a garden can bring to your yard and life the lessons gardening teaches about experimenting and trying new things
Supermarket Botany Matching Game Match the foods to what part of the plant they come from. Citation: Teachers' Domain, Supermarket Botany, published August 9, 2007, retrieved on November 15, 2010, http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/lsps07.sci.life.oate.plantparts/		Watch the field trip video here
The Compost Game: Play this game to learn how to keep a compost pile healthy! Citation: Teachers' Domain, Compost Office, published December 17, 2005, retrieved on November 15, 2010, http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/ess05.sci.ess.earthsys.compost/ Click on the game image here to go to game page: Watch this video to find out the importance of worms Citation: Teachers' Domain, Wonderful Worms, published October 7, 2008, retrieved on November 15, 2010, http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/vtl07.la.rv.text.wonderworm/		Watch this slideshow to see some of the plants that grow in the garden. Garden tour slideshow View more presentations or Upload your own. Watch this clay animation to see how a bean seed becomes a plant.
Instructional Materials How Compost Works-The rotten truth.pdf Details Download 512 KB Related Links Cornell Composting in Schools Kids Gardening.org Books about Gardens and Gardening Louisville Food Literacy Project

The Three Sisters Garden
This is a great school garden project. Below we see a VoiceThread created by a third grade class which describes
the history behind this gardening method. Here also is a link to a site that shows how to use this method in the modern
school garden. 3 Sisters Garden Website